University of Arizona in the News

UA microbiologist Charles Gerba says employees should take their coffee mugs and dishes home every night to clean.

"Asteroid discovery is just a fun project to be involved with," said Eric Christensen, who leads the UA's Catalina Sky Survey. "There's a lot of undiscovered asteroids to be found."

Research by the UA's Allison Gabriel found consistent evidence that women reported higher levels of workplace incivility from other women than from their male counterparts.

The recently completed UA College of Science lecture series focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

To find out if the logic of the Buddhist perspective eliminates existential fear, UA philosophy professor Shaun Nichols surveyed hundreds of monastic Tibetan Buddhists in exile in India.

Ancestral gene resurrection inserts ancient genes into modern E. coli bacteria, giving researchers the chance to watch evolution unfold again and again.

Slurry is a powerful way to help slow down fires, but it also comes with a big price tag and some environmental concerns.

A five-year, $2.98 million grant will fund research to help reduce exposures to hazardous chemicals in the workplace, specifically at beauty salons and automotive repair shops.

A community of bacteria can survive a decade without water in Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the most inhospitable places on Earth where the soils resemble those on Mars.

Water policy is becoming a prisoner of its own limited vocabulary, particularly when it comes to the weather. Perhaps "drought" and "normal" belong in the dustbin of history.